It’s been a heart-wrenching 3 days since the news of the shootings unfolded Friday morning. Best antidote to my sorrow was a run in the rain this afternoon. I turned up the music far too loud and headed out for a quick run. I stopped thinking and spinning about the grieving families in Connecticut. I heard the music and felt the cold on my hands. It was a powerful switch.
Even though I’ve only seen 15 minutes of news coverage about the shootings, I’ve been reading about how to support families in the aftermath and I’ve been consuming copious information since Friday. I’ve been allowing my own social networks and my own professional organizations to filter information I should read. Like most Americans, my curiosity for details is difficult to fully suppress. We all want to understand more. Even so:
Find time for yourself in the next 24 hours to have some release. Give yourself time and space (when you can) to get outside. Just putting one foot in front of the other helps. Without the news, without Facebook, without the conversations about Newtown, CT ringing in your ears. Get out and walk or run. Put in the music or simply tune out the masses. Be in a place with no ceiling and find time to repay all that has been drained from you.
One foot in front of the other helps.
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